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ninety-second

[ nahyn-tee-sek-uhnd ]

adjective

  1. next after the ninety-first; being the ordinal number for 92.
  2. being one of 92 equal parts.


noun

  1. a ninety-second part, especially of one (1/92).
  2. the ninety-second member of a series.

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Example Sentences

In his ninety-second year, he said to the writer, that for every page of any other reading he was sure he read ten of the Bible.

He put spurs to his horse and galloped to the spot where the Ninety-second were lying behind a ditch bordering the road.

The enemy crossed a hedge within forty yards of the Ninety-second, and delivered their fire.

He suffered the misfortune of going blind, and died at Richmond in 1890, in the ninety-second year of his age.

In the first week of April of the following year, when he was approaching his ninety-second birthday, the first lesson took place.

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